Wiesel
What concentration camp was he in?
Auschwitz
Background: What years did the Holocaust take place?
1940-1945
What is a rhetorical question?
A question that has an is meant to think - not answer out loud. Has an obvious, logical, or assumed answer.
“After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will be the same.”
pathos
What is the definition of liberate?
To free something or someone. Freedom.
What did he dedicate his life to?
Speaking out against injustice
What reason(s) led to the discrimination of the Jewish people?
multiple answers
What does it mean when he says, "Here heaven and earth are on fire"?
Evil of the Holocaust is still present and affecting people. The pain of the Holocaust will remain here. Evil spread.
"I speak to you as a man, who 50 years and nine days ago had no name, no hope, no future and was known only by his number, A7713."
ethos
What is a synonym for commemorate?
remember, honor, memorial
When did he give this speech?
1995 - 50th anniversary of his freedom
What identification method was given to those not sentenced to death upon arrival at concentration camps?
Tattooed numbers
What does kingdom of eternal night symbolize or represent?
Constant evil occurring at Auschwitz.
"Where else can we say to the world 'Remember the morality of the human condition,' if not here?
For the sake of our children, we must remember Birkenau, so that it does not become their future."
logos
What dies exterminate mean in this sentence?
I speak as a Jew who has seen what humanity has done to itself by trying to exterminate an entire people and inflict suffering and humiliation and death on so many others.
to remove, erase, destroy all
What does it mean to be indifferent?
Choosing to not act or care when harm is being done
There were two lines prisoners separated into at Auschwitz-- what were they for?
1. To be put to work
2. To be sent to gas chamber
Who are the groups of people called "exiles drawn by death."
Victims: Jewish, Gypsies, Polish, Disabled, etc.
"Now, as then, we ask the question of all questions: what was the meaning of what was so routinely going on in this kingdom of eternal night."
pathos
What can we determine is the meaning of the word "bloodshed" in paragraph 16?
What honor did he win?
Nobel Peace Prize
What is the name of the death camp connected to Auschwitz?
Birkenau
What is the effect of the rhetorical question in paragraph 17?
It suggests to the audience that Auschwitz is an opportunity for the world to reflect on our own humanity.
What does the repeated prayer show?
pathos
somber, sadness, grief, anguish, etc.